verdinglichung

Wo? Natürlich in den Niederlanden!

Liebe Blogger,

eigentlich habe ich nicht viel Zeit, aber ich muss mich doch kurz in die aktuelle Debatte über das "bedingungslose Grundeinkommen" einmischen, betrifft ja irgendwie auch meine Zukunft.  In den Niederlanden kann man, wenn man nachweisen kann, dass man Künstler ist, vier Jahre lang Unterhalt bekommen.  Als Künster gilt man, wenn man an einer einschlägigen Kunstakademie studiert hat oder nur 1200 Euro per Jahr mit "Kunst" verdient.  Schade, dass es sowas nicht in Deutschland gibt, hier ist es ja schon fast ein Ding der Unmöglichkeit in die KSK rein zu kommen.  Auf jeden Fall verbleiben weger der "WIK" bzw. der Aussicht auf das "staatsstpendium" viele meiner deutschen Künstlerfreude, trotz beengter Wohnsituation, lieber in den Niederlandenden.

Ich werde jetzt gar nicht weiter auf dieses Thema eingehen finde aber den Ansatz "gesellschaftliche Beteiligung als Vorraussetzung für ein Grundeinkommen", dargelegt im folgenden PDF (Seite 348 - 350) als Zwischenschritt überlegenswert. Vor allem weil man dann die Debatte über: "Dann geht doch keiner mehr arbeiten" hinter sich lassen könnte.

www.uclouvain.be/cps/ucl/doc/etes/documents/2009zi.Grundeinkommen(Franzmann).pdf

Hier sind noch mehr Quellen zu diesen Thema, allerdings in englisch:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_in_the_Netherlands

It can be said that the Dutch (like some other Western-European countries) have established a basic income for some groups. The Algemene Ouderdoms Wet, a government pension act, functions as a basic income for the elderly. Artists (that have to meet certain conditions) also benefit from legislation that provides a type of basic income, courtesy of the WIK, the Wet Inkomensvoorziening Kunstenaars (Artists' Income Act).

ec.europa.eu/employment_social/equal/practical-examples/entrep-07-kunstenaars_en.cfm

Practical examples - Entrepreneurship

Art for everyone as a way into work

A broad partnership of 11 organisations is using the 'artist approach' as a way into the labour market for those furthest removed from it. By putting people in touch with their own creativity, it enhances their confidence and communication skills. The training it provides also breaks down the isolation many severely disadvantaged people face. Kunstenaars&CO, based in Amsterdam, its partners and its three transnational partners are running pilot courses for over 300 people from six target groups: migrants, prisoners, mentally handicapped people, young people at risk, workless families and drug addicts. The approach is a proven success with the mentally handicapped, and for the other groups research is under way to provide policy-makers with the data they require.

Art - an economic dynamo for everyone

The Kunstenaars&CO foundation was set up in 2001 under the directorship of Jo Houben, with the self-imposed task of improving working conditions for artists in the Netherlands. At that time the Dutch government realised that working artists are a tremendous asset to a society and to its economy too. After all, most visitors come to Amsterdam precisely because of its rich cultural history and collections of work by painters like Rembrandt and Van Gogh. Art gives life to a city and is part of renewing the stock of intellectual property. And, more prosaically, cultural industries account for an ever-growing share of Amsterdam's jobs. So even to a businesslike Dutch mentality, helping struggling artists to find their feet financially makes good sense. That is why the Netherlands started a scheme called WWIK (Wet Werk en Inkomen Kunstenaars - 'Work and Income for Artists Act') that gives practising artists a guaranteed basic income, but with the obligation to generate a certain amount of income themselves. And that is how Kunstenaars&CO found itself operating on quite a large scale, administering the WWIK scheme, with a staff of approximately 70 working from a stately old house on the Nieuwe Herengracht.

As well as helping new artists to get established, Kunstenaars&CO also aims to broaden the market for their products. And apart from corporate art, there are many applications for art in the public sector. This is where EQUAL comes in. In order to make use of artists' skills to help disadvantaged people find a place in the labour market, Kunstenaars&CO went into partnership. It teamed up with two prisons, a school, a reintegration company, a healthcare organisation, three artists' groups, the Netherlands Institute for Care and Welfare and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science to launch KunstWerk(t) - 'ArtWork(s)'.